Dance Jubilee

Dance Jubilee

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Tonya Johnson of East Baltimore, Annette Ferrell of Parkville, Jubilee Arts line dance teacher China McIntosh, and Larry Brown of West Baltimore dance during the fifth annual Dancing for a Cause to benefit Jubilee Arts. The event was held at The Inn at the Colonnade in Tuscany-Canterbury.

Tonya Johnson of East Baltimore, Annette Ferrell of Parkville, Jubilee Arts line dance teacher China McIntosh, and Larry Brown of West Baltimore dance during the fifth annual Dancing for a Cause to benefit Jubilee Arts. The event was held at The Inn at the Colonnade in Tuscany-Canterbury. (Nicole Martyn / Baltimore Sun Media Group)

CW Harris, founder of Jubilee Arts, and Dionna Barilla of Dallas, TX dance during the fifth annual Dancing for a Cause to benefit Jubilee Arts. The event featured line dancing, hand dancing and other types of dance.

CW Harris, founder of Jubilee Arts, and Dionna Barilla of Dallas, TX dance during the fifth annual Dancing for a Cause to benefit Jubilee Arts. The event featured line dancing, hand dancing and other types of dance. (Nicole Martyn / Baltimore Sun Media Group)

The fifth annual Dancing for a Cause to benefit Jubilee Arts held dance lessons on routines originating from the streets of Harlem and adapted throughout the country. One of Baltimore's dance routines is the hand dance, which was adapted from Harlem's Lindy Hop. Currently, the routines are taught at Jubilee Arts as a way to preserve and revive the legacy of the African-American arts community while also celebrating the venues where those dances were once performed on historic Pennsylvania Avenue in West Baltimore.